Water Hit with Young Star's Best Shot
Water is being blasted to pieces by a young star's laser-like jets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The discovery provides a better understanding of how water -- an essential ingredient for life as we know it -- is processed in emerging solar systems.
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07.22.10 Unsettled Youth: A Chaotic Planetary SystemDuring the infancy of our solar system, when our planets had not yet settled down into their orbits, this was a dange... |
07.22.10 Unsettled Youth: A Chaotic Planetary SystemDuring the infancy of our solar system, when our planets had not yet settled down into their orbits, this was a dange... |
06.01.10 Swirling Clumps of Planetary MaterialSomething appears to be pushing around a large clump of material that is in orbit of this star, and it's moving fast ... |
02.05.10 Trigger Happy Star FormationFrom recent discoveries made by two of NASA's Great Observatories comes new insight into how stars are created. Large... |
09.04.09 Baby Stars Found Jumbled In Galactic CenterAt the center of our Milky Way galaxy is an area previously unseen by astronomers. Shrouded by clouds of swirling dus... |
04.07.09 Cool Stars Have Different Mix of Life-Forming ChemicalsIt's life, Jim, but not as we know it! Well, at least the building blocks of life. A new study from NASA's Spitzer S... |
01.28.09 Exoplanet with Wild Temperature SwingsTalk about hot flashes! A planet that heats up to extreme temperatures in a matter of hours before quickly cooling ba... |
12.12.08 Dim DwarfsThe new record-holder for dimmest known star-like object in the universe goes to twin brown dwarfs, each of which shi... |
11.13.08 Twin Asteroid BeltsThe star Epsilon Eridani is even stranger than fiction. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has shown it has two asteroid ... |
09.18.08 Water Hit with Young Star's Best ShotWater is being blasted to pieces by a young star's laser-like jets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer... |
08.25.08 Spitzer's Fifth AnniversaryNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope continues to surprise astronomers. On its fifth anniversary, we recap some of this Gre... |
07.15.08 Brightest Star in the Galaxy has New CompetitionA contender for the title of brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy has been unearthed in the dusty metropolis of the... |
06.13.08 Missing Spiral ArmsAs a result of a new Spitzer Space Telescope study, two of our own Milky Way Galaxy's spiral arms have gone away. |
05.23.08 Holes on MarsSpitzer isn't the only infrared mission. Infrared images from another of NASA's robotic missions help us understand m... |
03.24.08 Diamondoids in SpaceDiamonds may be rare on Earth, but surprisingly common in space -- and new research shows that the infrared eyes of N... |
02.25.08 Common EarthsTerrestrial planets might form around many, if not most, of the nearby sun-like stars in our galaxy. These new result... |
02.04.08 Cosmic SuburbiaYoung city dwellers on Earth aren't the only ones rushing to suburbia to start families. New observations from NASA's... |
12.19.07 Uncommon MoonsNew observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that moons like Earth's -- that formed out of tremendous... |
10.22.07 Galactic Thief Caught Stealing GasA big galaxy, spotted stealing gas from a passing galaxy about half its size, was caught red-handed by the Spitzer Sp... |
10.09.07 Dust in the Wind of Black HolesThe dust that makes everything around us -- and even ourselves -- may have come from black holes. |
